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AirTran WiFi...neat concept but overpriced.

Having been around since testing the first Motorola WLAN products back in 1992, I was thrilled to settle into the seat of a recent AirTran flight and connect my netbook the Internet at 30,000 feet at 500 mph.

So I connected, waited for the portal login screen to load, and what the???

For my one hour flight the service would cost me $12.95....yikes!

Most airport WiFi services cost around $8 a day, and even some hotels charge you $9.95 for 24 hours. But $12.95 for a short flight is a bit steep. Plus that's per-seat, so the spouse would need to shell out another $13 in the seat next to you.

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Plus, I bet its barely useable

I'd expect it is either using satellite or cell phone towers. both have poor bandwidth, couple that with bandwidth bottleneck of wireless, and the bottleneck of having several people using it. I doubt the net would even be usable. Maybe you could load a page every 5 minutes?

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